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Re: Delete 4 million files



In <[🔎] 49C93FD1.7040107@net153.net>, Sam Leon wrote:
>Most everyone here is recommending just plain old rm -rf
>
>I might add that once you start the rm process that you find the pid of
>it and then lower its priority with renice so that away your whole
>system won't be slowed down while it works.

Why re-nice?  Just nice it to begin with:
nice -n 15 rm -rf
(Can also be chained with ionice if you like.)
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